Women carry the heavy load of COVID-19
COVID-19 has increased pressures on women. Liesl Orr argues that it is mainly women who work in low paid service …
In the Workplace
Fear and Frustration: Voices of Taxi Drivers and Passengers
Taxi drivers and passengers feel that they have little protection from contracting Covid 19. Rob Rees interviewed a number of …
Same storm, different boat : Covid-19 and South African informal workers
Many people have suffered during the Covid-19 pandemic but some groups of South Africans have more than others. Michael Rogan …
Zimbabwe-South African : Soccer, braais and community of workers
Many South Africans have the image of desperate Zimbabweans hacking their way through wire to enter the South African world …
Year of fire: industrial action in 1998
A report by Jeremy Baskin and Renee Grawitsky analyses the reasons for the upsurge in industrial action this year and …
Yet another collection of irrevent postcards from our correspondent on the front-line
Speculating the end of the tripartite alliance between the ruing African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and …
You entered & will leave through that gate
Farms still remain workplaces where precarious working conditions are the order of the day. Mbuso Nkosi writes that farm workers …
Youth Wage Subsidy: Can It Solve Job Creation?
Government has mooteda youth wage subsidy asa means of attacking unemployment. Oupa Bodibe and Kimani Ndungu believe this is too …
World Bank policies and labour rights
The World Bank and the role it plays in promoting liberalisation, privatisation, the free movement of capital, so-called free trade …
World Cup 2010
The majority of workers on 2010 construction sites are not permanent and have no benefits. Crispen Chinguno describes the different …